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well, my brother's hdd in his laptop was going bad, it kept failing to boot. so i replaced it with another one. when i turned the laptop back on it started installing all the drivers for his hardware (windows was already installed on the 2nd hdd) and prompted me to reboot. after i did windows failed to start several times. i re-installed windows from scratch, and now his graphics card isn't showing up in device manager and windows cant find a driver for the network or ethernet card.

so, i got it to install the driver for the network adapter, but when i search for an access point, i cant see my wireless, in device manager it has "ethernet controller" listed under "other devices" with one of the ! inside an orange triangle

gpu doesn't show in device manager; network card driver install fail

Driver Install - Device ManagerHow to Install a Driver in Device Manager
NOTE: for this example, I am using Windows XP Drivers.
You can use Vista, Windows 7 drivers, or (Windows 8 drivers on Windows 8)
Using Windows XP drivers
1) Click on Manage

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Wireless card(s) show in Device Manager but cannot connect to networkI have a friend's laptop (Toshiba Satellite L645D-S4040) that she recently got and I can't get the wifi on this thing to work. The built-in wifi card shows fine in Device Manager, but, if I attempt to use it in a network, I get a vague error about driver issues. She got a USB wifi adapter, as...

Network & Sharing

my nvidia graphics card will not show up in device manager anymorestory:
Okay so here's what happened, I Was working on photoshop one day and when i was trying to do more CPU hungry things on it (evan cropping) the screen started to flicker black and come right after 10 seconds OR evan flicker then turn off. One day it started flickering and then turned off, I...

Graphic Cards

Msg: Fail to find and install unknown device driverWindows 7 installed for almost two years. No new hardware installed. In last few days get message above when I turn on the computer at beginning of day. Looking in list of devices shows only Unknown device with no description. Nothing seems to be malfunctioning. Where should I look to fix...

Drivers

Realtek doesn't show in Device ManagerHi guys,
I'm trying to get Realtek installed and i do manage to install it without getting a failure message or whatsoever. But the problem is that it does not work.
I installed and removed many codecs and versions of realtek, it just doesn't show in the device manager.
The only thing...